Jolie, 38, and Voight, 75, have mended fences in recent years, and now the veteran actor seems to relish hearing about her and Pitt coaxing little Vivienne on stage as the cameras rolled.

"Apparently when they were doing it, the funny thing was Angie and Brad were off camera trying to get her to respond. You know, telling her, 'You're happy and you're running through the field.' And they followed her with the camera. That's what I heard. That's what I read. I can imagine that," he said.

He doesn't say whether Jolie needed similar direction when she made her film debut at age 6 alongside him in Lookin' to Get Out. Yet he does make it clear he doesn't want to be a stage grandpa when it comes to Vivienne's screen time.

"It's just like any grandchild. You're going to be proud of her no matter what she did," he said.